I make a movie because it's something that inspires me.

I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language.

I think we're lucky because there are very few people in life who get to do what we're doing.

There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.

I'm trying to use the camera to get into people's heads. I use camera techniques a lot to articulate character.

A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it.

I've had a love affair with every movie I've ever done.

The real world is where I get to educate and entertain myself. I go and touch the real world and touch real people. That's my way into movies.

Research is what drives me. When I get a script, I go to the real world and touch the real people.

The world is sick of big IT things that don't work.

I have a short attention span.

Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing...

Vocabulary for aggravation is large. Vocabulary for transcendence is elusive.

Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.

Let us expect that God is going to use us. Let us have courage and go forward, looking to God to do great things.

I don't think there is any place in football for drinking. I have said on several occasions to players: You don't put diesel in a Ferrari.

A mind is like a puzzle; you must unlock it to read its hidden secrets.

The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.

I think a performer should do his work and then shut up.